An exterior view of the makeshift shower Bianca Farias built in The Zone, a large homeless encampment near the Human Services Campus in Phoenix.

Phoenix should get homeless treatment before giving them a home

An exterior view of the makeshift shower Bianca Farias built in The Zone, a large homeless encampment near the Human Services Campus in Phoenix.

Homelessness in Phoenix is ​​an unprecedented disaster.

The number of homeless people living on the streets has tripled since 2016, even as the number in shelters has fallen. In 2020, more than 500 homeless people died on the streets. This year, the number of homeless deaths in the city is expected to exceed 1,000. Most of these deaths are due to drug overdoses.

Despite this human tragedy, many elected leaders in Phoenix want to continue on our current, failed path. Their only “solution” is to give free permanent housing to everyone who sleeps outside. And while we wait years or decades for those thousands of homes to be built, they want to continue to allow our most vulnerable neighbors, who struggle with addiction and serious mental illness, to live and die on our streets.


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